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Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way.

We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence.

To any topic that makes the news

makes it big or makes us mad.

It's skeptical, it's political,

and there are no aliens.

That seems unfair time.

There's none that we found I don't think.

There are none that we have.

Evidence of absence is not, you know,

don't necessarily know that.

Absence of evidence is not

I will say I will say there's no compelling evidence that we found them at all

that's for definite sure well we're gonna talk about it in some detail we read some

we read some articles from the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and from Discover magazine.

I will tell you, Cecil, you sent me a bunch of options to read.

I chose the Discover magazine one because it's bitchy.

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